Disabled Peoples' International

Disabled Peoples' International (DPI) is a cross-disability, consumer-controlled international organization of people with disabilities in over 130 countries around the world. USICD is the national assembly of the United States in DPI, and a member of DPI North American and the Caribbean. The goals of DPI are to:

DPI Resources

Advocates can use the DPI Ratification Toolkit as a guide to the process of working with their national government to sign and ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The accompanying Implementation Toolkit offers guidance to advocates on how to ensure that their country fully implements the CRPD.

DPI has produced a series of two page primers about the CRPD, providing information about the issues and obligations addressed in the CRPD. Versions in French and Spanish can also be accessed through the main DPI portal.

Statement of Mr. Jean-Luc Simon, the Chair of Disabled Peoples International, European Region at the civil society roundtable discussions of the UN High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals at UN Headquarters, 20-22 September, 2010.

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